John Bartholomew collection 1904

Shackleton, Ernest Henry, 1874-1922

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Ernest Shackleton, leader of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and part of two other Antarctic expeditions, acquired Polaris after her owner's financial trouble. Renamed Endurance after the Shackleton family motto Fortitudine vincimus (By Endurance we Conquer), she sailed intending to accomplish the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. She departed for her final voyage on December 15, 1914 but progress was slow, averaging about 30 miles per day through pack ice. A month later, w...

Mill, Hugh Robert, 1861-1950

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Hugh Robert Mill was born at Thurso, Scotland, on 28 May 1861. He read chemistry and physics at Edinburgh University and specialised in marine chemistry, working on the scientific reports of the Challenger expedition under Sir John Murray. In 1887, he became lecturer in geography and physiography at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, and four years later, published The realm of nature, an important textbook of scientific geography. In 1892, he was appointed librarian of the Royal Geogr...

John George Bartholomew

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John George Bartholomew was born on 22 March 1860 in Edinburgh, the son of John Bartholomew, founder of a firm of map-makers and publishers. He was educated at Edinburgh University but did not take his degree, instead entering the draughtsman's office in his father's firm and learning cartography. In 1889, he took over the firm's management, devoting the rest of his life to cartography. His firm achieved a large output including the two great atlases of Scotland (1895) and of England and Wales (...

Bartholomew, J. G. (John George), 1860-1920

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